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Talking with John Craig of "Can Rock and Roll Save America" was so fun! We touch may subjects here, from tangible work on a Retrofit Revolution to improve homes and cultural experience in suburban America, to gun violence, compassion and how to transmute anger into solutions. What a conversation, I'm still thinking from it!

"It’s a hard assignment. Compressing anything as messy as the future into 100 words is a near-impossible challenge. Almost like writing poetry. And 100 years is so immensely distant from us that we need to fictionalize it. But the most difficult part is imagining a scenario that is desirable.

"My choice for the most plausible vision of a future I desire goes to John Hanacek’s scenario. I think I’d like to live there, and I think it is plausible in 100 years.My $100 goes to him." - Kevin Kelley, kk.org

"In this two-part blog, John Hanacek forecasts a future in which the line between material and virtual reality is gradually more blurred, with people living in both realms simultaneously. In this new world, the Internet may also be increasingly a real-time extension of our memory and our access to knowledge, answering our questions before they are even posed and potentially manipulating our desires and our behavior. Hanacek looks first at the upside of the 'answer engine Internet' and then at its dangers."